Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI)

The Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) (German: Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation) is a child institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was founded in November 2003.

The institute, with sites in Innsbruck and Vienna, is dedicated to fundamental research in quantum optics and quantum information, both theoretical and experimental.

The research institute has around 100 employees and consists of a section in Innsbruck, with four working groups led by Rainer Blatt, Hans Briegel, Rudolf Grimm and Peter Zoller and two junior groups led bei Gerhard Kirchmair and Oriol Romero-Isart, and a section in Vienna with groups led by Anton Zeilinger and Časlav Brukner. The institute is an independent research center with strong links to the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna. Thereby a close exchange of students and postdocs is established and the members of the institute can be integrated in teaching at the universities.

The Latest Updated Research News:

November 24, 2016 - In their experiment the researchers produced a Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium atoms at extremely low temperatures in a vacuum chamber. They then controlled the particle interaction by using an external magnetic field. ... Francesca Ferlaino is ...

November 18, 2016 - The Viennese scientists results of the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at the University of Vienna and the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna (IQOQI Vienna) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences have now ...

November 16, 2016 - University of Vienna research team has succeeded in breaking two novel records while experimenting with so-called twisted particles of light. ... The Viennese scientists results of the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at the ...

November 2, 2016 - By weaving some quantum wizardry, A*STAR researchers have achieved something that appears to be a contradiction in terms—using visible light to perform spectroscopy at infrared wavelengths. Even more mysterious is that the visible light does not even ...

October 6, 2016 - Because of the well-controlled environment, the scientists are able to create many-body states and manipulate interactions between particles in these gases. Rudolf Grimm's research group, working at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum ...

September 30, 2016 - With an eye on moving closer to free-space quantum cryptography, Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) did a laser communication demonstration between a low Earth orbit satellite and an optical ground station ...

September 30, 2016 - From that information, the researchers' algorithms were able to reconstruct an accurate image of the pattern cut into the mask. "The reason our eyes are sensitive only in this narrow part of the spectrum is because this is where light and matter ...

September 27, 2016 - "If you work at low-light intensities, shot noise limits the maximum amount of information you can get from your image," said Thomas Juffmann, co-author of the research and a postdoctoral research fellow in Stanford Professor Mark Kasevich's research ...

June 30, 2016 - Peter Zoller, Rainer Blatt and colleagues at the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) have created a digital quantum computer and have used it to simulate the physics of a gauge theory. These ...

June 22, 2016 - Physicists from the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences have now done exactly that: In an international first, Rainer Blatt's and Peter Zoller's research teams ...

December 2, 2016 - "In a developed market, you are competing with cheaper forms of conventional power generation, such as gas and also hydro. Energy storage costs still have some way to come down for a hybrid plant like Kennedy Energy Park to be competitive," he said.

December 1, 2016 - SEATTLE - When firefighter paramedics Morlon Malveaux and Mark Pedeferri learned that their powerhorse diesel ambulance was going to be traded for a gas-powered hybrid they were more than a little concerned. The two, who run a Medic One rig ...